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re⋅move

[ri-moov]

verb, -moved, -mov⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to move from a place or position; take away or off: to remove the napkins from the table.

2.	to take off or shed (an article of clothing): to remove one's jacket.

3.	to move or shift to another place or position; transfer: She removed the painting to another wall.

4.	to put out; send away: to remove a tenant.

5.	to dismiss or force from a position or office; discharge: They removed him for embezzling.

6.	to take away, withdraw, or eliminate: to remove the threat of danger.

7.	to get rid of; do away with; put an end to: to remove a stain; to remove the source of disease.

8.	to kill; assassinate.

–verb (used without object)

9.	to move from one place to another, esp. to another locality or residence: We remove to Newport early in July.

10.	to go away; depart; disappear.

–noun

11.	the act of removing.

12.	a removal from one place, as of residence, to another.

13.	the distance by which one person, place, or thing is separated from another: to see something at a remove.

14.	a mental distance from the reality of something as a result of psychological detachment or lack of experience: to criticize something at a remove.

15.	a degree of difference, as that due to descent, transmission, etc.: a folk survival, at many removes, of a druidic rite.

16.	a step or degree, as in a graded scale.

17.	British. a promotion of a pupil to a higher class or division at school.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME removen (v.) < OF remouvoir < L removēre. See re-, move

Synonyms:
1. dislodge. 3. displace, transport. 8. murder.

Antonyms:
1. leave. 9. remain.

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re·move (rĭ-mōōv')

v. re·moved, re·mov·ing, re·moves

v. tr.

To move from a place or position occupied: removed the cups from the table.
To transfer or convey from one place to another: removed the family to Texas.
To take off: removed my boots.
To take away; withdraw: removed the candidate's name from consideration.
To do away with; eliminate: remove a stain.
To dismiss from an office or position.

v. intr.

To change one's place of residence or business; move: "In 1751, I removed from the country to the town" (David Hume).
To go away; depart.
To be removable: paint that removes with water.

The act of removing; removal.
Distance or degree of separation or remoteness: "to spill, though at a safe remove, the blood of brave men" (Anthony Burgess).

[Middle English removen, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin removēre : re-, re- + movēre, to move; see move.]
re·mov'er n.

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Remove

Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing.] [OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.]

1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. --Deut. xix. 14.

When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. --Goldsmith.

2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. "King Richard thus removed." --Shak.

3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.

Remove

Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. i. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear. --Shak.

Note: The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

Remove

Re*move"\, n. 1. The act of removing; a removal.

This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. --Milton.

And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. --Goldsmith.

2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.

It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. --J. H. Newman.

3. The state of being removed. --Locke.

4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. --Addison.

6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. --Swift.

Language Translation for : remove

Spanish: quitar, llevarse,

German: entfernen,

Japanese: 取り除く

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remove

c.1300, from O.Fr. remouvoir, from L. removere "move back or away," from re- "back, away" + movere "to move" (see move). The noun is first recorded 1553, "act of removing;" sense of "space or interval by which one thing is distant from another" is attested from 1628.

Main Entry: re·move
Pronunciation: ri-'müv
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: re·moved; re·mov·ing
transitive verb : to change the location, position, station, status, or residence of: as a : to have (an action) transferred from one court to another and esp. from a state court to a federal court —see also SEPARABLE CONTROVERSY
NOTE: Section 1441 et seq. of title 28 of the U.S. Code allows a defendant who is brought into a state court to remove the action to federal district court when diversity of citizenship exists, when the action involves a claim or right arising under the U.S. Constitution or under laws or treaties of the U.S., or when the defendant is a foreign country or its agency or instrumentality. Civil actions and criminal prosecutions brought against an officer or agency of the U.S. for any act under color of office may also be removed. b : to dismiss from office removed from office…only by the personal action of the Attorney General —U.S. Code> c : to take away removed by a judgment of a court —Louisiana Civil Code> —re·mov·abil·i·ty /-"mü-v&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun —re·mov·able also re·move·able /-'mü-v&-b&l/ adjective —re·mov·able·ness noun

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